This little jig taught me a lesson you need to know too!
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- A simple jig for hand-sawing an acute angle that teaches a lesson that will make you a better woodworker!
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All of my woodworking problems come down to those darn pesky people who insist at looking at my work to closely. My first major jig took me weeks to think through. In the end it was really pretty simple but it allowed me to drill multiple holes at a 10 degree angle in line and rapidly on a drill press. I remain very proud of it. Excellent concept video Stumpy.
although wouldnt have leaving that uncut piece that the saw table couldnt reach thru made sawing by hand even easier? table saw blades are normally wider than hand saws. so wouldnt you be able to have a that slot available to follow with little effort? Very cool idea. thank you for the tip.
@@alaskankare A 1/8" slot from the table saw blade is not going to guide a thin Japanese saw blade.
Very informative & I even enjoyed the fun advert at the end💚🇬🇧🌱
Thx, appreciate the sauce
You say "craftsperson". My wife calls it "madness". :) Joking aside, problem-solving is one of my favorite things about woodworking. Excellent vid, thanks!
I always insert magnets into jigs made for my Japanese saws. Very useful for accurate cuts.
Every project that I start begins with me telling my wife how long it will take to complete as I spend so much time working out the details. It's one of my favorite parts of the process.
"But don't you just ..?" said (pretty much) every wife ever...
@@jasondoust4935 Yea. It’s like they’ve all gone to the ‘I Dream of Genie’ woodworking academy where one quick rushing thought spills all 3 ( exaggeration ) details onto the bench for project completion. Ten minutes from there, you’re finished. I’ve decided that they wish they had a hobby to spend individual time on personally but rather you just be their personal hobby. No offense meant , just a crazy observation about someone wanting the ‘wiggle the nose’ routine to have a ‘problem’ taken care of; more not living in the real world trauma again. Anything worth doing takes time. No way around it.
Lol thats what normally deters me, I'll spend an hour or so drawing out the plans then go thru everything I need then price it out then I'm like f it it aint worth it
When my wife and I met I had to replace a motor on a power seat. She said how long will that take. I said 20 minutes. Ah yeah no. 2 hrs. later. 😆
So now everything i do is 20 minutes. How long to paint the kitchen? 20 minutes. 🤣 🤣 🤣
After years of asking, and having her own projects fail, my wife is *finally* at the point of trusting that maybe the time I take to set up and align and jig is actually good, so she just lets me do my work.
That works. I'd be tempted to do the math (which may be rusty, I'm happy to be corrected), and put a shim in a standard mitre box as a temporary jig to add or subtract an extra 3 degrees from the cut while reusing the existing 45° slot. Of course, that depends on the size of your miter box and your ability to securely clamp the temp sacrificial fence piece to the bottom of the miter box.
Computing a tangent in this case is pretty easy, and lining up a 5/16" shim at 6 inches will get really close (it's like 2.98°). I'd bet well-used miter slots have more slop error than the difference. Put the workpiece (temp fence) against the side, tilt by sliding in drill bit in at the 6 inch mark, clamp to the bottom, remove the bit and cut. Yes, it's again a "close enough", but I think it really is close enough for hobby purposes. Just double check the angle is the correct one (not the complementary one) before you cut it. And the drill bit can be reused later. :)
I'm assuming he needed it to be pretty exact. The same can be done with a miter saw though.
My 12" sliding saw will miter 51 degrees left and 70 degrees right, but occasionally I need a rip and that is better accomplished with a circular saw cutting through the edges of the board, not across the face with a bevel.
I just cut it carefully by hand staying on my lines, just like my grandfather did.
Love your work 👍
Yes, exactly!
A craftsman should be able to make that cut easily.
I too love the Stumpy Nubs stuff... So no offense intended.
And father too !
...until you need to make 20 more of those same cuts.
@@JOSEPH-vs2gc Ok. Fair enough. But if you can cut 19 more in 20 minutes vs. 2 hours to design, test, and do it on a machine you need to ask Is It Worth It ? Plenty of pros and cons to consider. In manufacturing we'd calculate things like Number of Touches and ROI to figure it all out. And take our best shot.
@@mpart_woodlathe-stuff Are you saying that you can cut 20 boards perfectly in 20 minutes? I think I'd opt to spend some time preparing to make the cut on a machine. The machine cuts perfectly everytime with proper preparation. You'll never get close to watertight seems on one board in 20 minutes within a tolerance of a 1/16". If you're making birdhouses, not a big deal but if you need some accuracy the human hand cannot produce consistent straight cuts or even a single flawlessly straight cut for that matter.
For someone who recently got into woodworking as a hobby, I don’t feel so bad spending over a month working on one project for a gift for my father. When I see it hanging on his wall I truly appreciate the hard work I put into it. Even if no one else knows how much time and effort was put into it. It is definitely a unique piece of work! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thats the whole goal of woodworking as a hobby! Take your time, make something you’re proud of. Very cool to hear stuff like this.
First jig I ever made was to help align holes drilled into both ends of a miter cut to accept dowels to help hold it together. Spent 2 hours making it and 5 minutes using it but the result was spot on. Worth it.
Your statement about a craftsperson putting in the extra time/work for a better result hit me right in the feels. I don't feel like I warrant that description yet, but now I feel a whole lot better about the extra time I spend trying to do things right!
As a woodworker, metal fabricator, and graphic artist, I seldom get any sleep, because my brain is building stuff at night in my head, and during the day I physically build what I was building in my head the night before. I personally have 45 years of jig making experience, whether it be used for cutting, building, or printing, I made 100s
Me to I'm a trim carpenter
Exact this!
Some of my favorite bedtime thinking is working through the next step in a project so it goes as smoothly as possible. I thought I was the only one.
turns out there are a lot of us actually..
Sounds like my dad!!! I hate when he calls me at 6am because he was up late thinking about our job lol
Your comment about taking the time to figure it out completely reminds me of Norm and his attention to the start-to-finish detail.
Jig making is still my favourite part of woodworking. Having a problem to solve is what spurs creativity & weird lateral thinking, and for that reason I routinely create problems for myself. That's my excuse & I'm sticking with it.
Jig making is good clean fun. In our college wood room, my jig collection grows. I love a fiddly wood problem.
@@jasondoust4935 I had so many single-purpose jigs before moving house that I just had to throw them all out. I did keep my (still not yet completed) router surfacing/thicknesser jig though; can't throw that out before I've finished making it.
@@nightcatarts - If the new house didn't have enough room for your jigs, you clearly moved to the wrong house!
@@Garryck-1 Sadly had to downsize. We still had to leave a few things behind on the day because the lorry and car couldn't hold any more (but my dad decided to not throw anything out, which didn't help).
I agree 100% James. A well thought out plan always makes for a better outcome in the end of the project.
I spend a lot of time making jigs that I may or may not ever use again. It's a big part of the fun of being a woodworker. Great jig BTW.
It's hard to beat the feeling of busting out a nearly-forgotten jig that perfectly fits a task again after ages.
As a teacher I congratulate you on your craftsmanship with wood and way you educate. Thank you!
One thing I learned about woodworking. It's not about the finish cut, it's about making the jig to make the finish cut.
“…the end result will be something you can look at with pride rather than something you hope nobody looks too closely at.”
Craftsman vs. Hack has never been explained so well.
Thanks for so many great lessons. I’m trying to make some of your videos mandatory as ongoing training at our shop!
Absolutely agree, and that there is the catch-22. There's a fine line between being one's own harshest critic and completing something you can look at with pride, even in the details. I recall doing something closer to carpentry than woodworking and try to be too precise or detailed and my dad would say "it doesn't have to be perfect, we aren't making furniture." You have to figure out how far to take the precision that you will be prideful of without going beyond the scope of what's reasonable.
Yes sir - My blood still boils whenever I hear a carpenter say "well, it looks good from my house" as they blow off a shoddy cut, measurement, assembly, installation or what have you... I've worked with a lot of hacks building houses over the years
I don't think it's fair to call beginners and hobbyists "hacks" just because they may fudge something to finish a project. There is high- and low-quality work, and no one starts off making perfect cuts every time. Don't be a gatekeeper and don't lord your experience over beginners. It's embarrassing and pathetic to pretend that you are talented when you actually just have more experience. I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice, not self-aggrandizing jerks.
@@sammygee7125 Hey Samuel, by no means was I implying hacks as beginners.
Sorry! lol
I love beginners because they care and want to do well. Not jaded by speed over quality…yet.
Hacks are by far veterans in their field: High confidence and lower skill set…despite the years of work.
There’ll always be mistakes, always room to learn and develop. That’s why I love this channel.
Hope that clarifies it.
@@lildave151 Remember, there's a little bit of hack in all of us!
I had a similar issue when I worked in a shop. We had a drill press nightmare jig that performed poorly and we were always resetting it. I thought about this endlessly and never solved the problem through ten years and resignation. About three years later while watching TV, the solution flashed across my mind.
Shows TV is good for something.😆
@@privateuploads-geo2625 Possibly how boring and mindless the TV show was… ;-)
Absolutely, James... I occasionally get "crap" for "inventing work" by some of the so-called builders around, because I spend a significant chunk of time on more projects than not, just planning it out and thinking, "There's GOT to be a better way to do this." Until I figure out something that will reduce my work-load in the cycle of repetitive pieces... SO I drop everything and sketch out and build the jig, rig, new tool variant, or some other piece of doo-dah... AND then end up "tweaking" a bit to suit me, because almost nothing is right the first time out of the gate.
I enjoy the "inventing" part of it, though... That moment when a good idea "dawns" upon me and I'm suddenly excited and inspired and I just have to get that idea to paper and start breathing life into it. It's the best part of any craft. OH sure, I can still "free-hand" my dove-tails and pins... If the scale is appropriate and my saw-benches are right, I can even free-hand most of them quite reliably with a plain old circular saw and paring chisel... I've done it before... and finished a dozen boxes in two days...
BUT to "rig up" a completely re-usable dove-tailing jig is also fun and ensures that I can do a hundred boxes with exactly the same tails and pins... or a thousand... or stop doing dove-tails for two years until someone needs a box or a side to replace one of the old ones, and I can just knock one out as if I'd never stopped... The jig sits on a shelf with a "toe-tag" labeling it for use, purpose and metering...
Just recently, over winter... my old saw-benches gave up their ghosts... collapsing in the back yard. It's okay, since they WERE some 20 years old and had always been reliable, good weather and foul, mud or no... SO with the early break into sort of a spring, I've been at it... building new... I'm sticking to the old design. There are more convenient benches all over YT, but I like mine with the folding brackets, and a few different "tops" to pick from for a set. A fistful of screws and I can use 2x6's for a little extra height... a short set or long, depending on the size of material, whether I'm hacking out planks or timbers or plywood... I'm just now hacking and chiseling out notches to top the things with 4x4's for a bit of extra material, and I'll make a set of each with a lap-joint in the middle to criss-cross a "convenient as hell" skeletal work-table... AND with the scraps, I'll be chopping out notches to fit over the top-materials for "sacrificial supports", as most of my current supply is "salvage" and so rittled with nails, I'd rather not run a new sawblade through it... BESIDES, these little rising cross-braces also lift the material for the project above the benches simply so I don't have to build any more benches than necessary, and unfasten the legs and brackets, and EVERYTHING folds down conveniently for storage... There's also the added safety of just not driving a circular saw blade (at speed) right through the saw-bench while you work... no needed accessorizing or planning... and any old scraps can be broken down for a new "sacrificial support" in shorter order than any saw bench can be made...
I suspect I'll be painting these benches, too... haha... Most don't, as the saw bench has long been it's own "sacrificial" material... BUT I rather like how that last set stood up to time and trials, tossed into truck-beds or box vans, skittered over the various debris when on the road, and then fastened together in a flash to be battered and dragged and borrowed and used for literally EVERYTHING... Only to get home and hose them off a bit, before folding them down and putting them away... ;o)
@Stumpy Nubs wins TH-cam with this gem: "The hack just wants to get the job done. Their mantra is 'good enough.'...But good enough here and good enough there can quickly add to 'not good enough' by the time the whole project is complete." Speaking for all of us lifetime hacks, you just taught us a huge lesson. Thank you!
Yep! Small oversights or assumptions made early come back to bite later on, as I'm learning on my current major project. I think it has to do with mental load- completing a phase lets you empty your brain and deal with the new short term issues. How to get more mental capacity? Repetition. Practice.
Hi James.
Nice job matey.
63 years of learning under my belt and you are still able to teach this old dog new tricks.
Whilst creating A frames for re-roofing an old house, I made a similar jig to the one you displayed. I too had a site table saw that was not large enough to cut the whole way through the jig, but I left the waste wood in place and used the resulting slot as a guide to ensure correct alignment of the saw blade.
There was less risk of the saw floating off-line and it made the cutting process much safer by keeping my hands away from the cut.
Please carry on the good work my friend.
Cheers, Chris
The real lesson I walk away with is You Don't Need a Powered Solution for Every Cut or Don't Be Afraid to Do It By Hand. Thanks James ! -Mike
Exactly you can cut the whole thing by hand with good layout and good technique.
When I started woodworking I used power tools exclusively. They just seemed easier to use and I could usually get accurate results. Later I learned that some cuts are too difficult or dangerous to set up with power tools. Also, sometimes I need to "tweak" the cut I made with my power tool and I learned that a sharp plane or chisel can do that with more finesse than returning to the power tool for another try. My point here is that power woodworkers can benefit a lot from owning and using a few hand tools. Figuring that out was a watershed moment for me.
And yet a 10 sec chop saw was overlooked vs.. 30m?
@@andyh8239 Uh, wasn't a miter saw mentioned at 00:20 ?
@@michaellitzkow8123 my takeaway is “watershed moment”. Thx
I used a jig very like this to cut a precise angle into an installed banister to turn it into a continuous banister. Long story short it worked great and got me a great angle that I was easily able to replicate to extend (aka board stretch) the complicated banister profile. That joint once dowels were installed was only off less than 1/16 of an inch which was more than enough veneer to blend into the next piece. Yes I used a Japanese pull saw and they are great. Thank You Stumpy Nubs for posting this jig.
It is often not the results, but the road we take that brings the satisfaction.
Not the tools, but the solution.
Thanks James. Another quality lesson hidden in wood working tips.
I agree! The ability to create custom tool will always take any artist and their art up to the next level regardless of whether their art is painting, pottery, or even woodworking.
You are a great teacher.
We appreciate it if you make a video, covering most of your past presentation, condensed into a half-hour video (i.e. each lesson done in a minute or so, with only pictures and a short explanation). It would be a great collection as your material is all fresh and not known even to the old-timers :)
I absolutely love this video. I have a confession; I love to solve problems. That's one of the many reasons I love woodworking. Thank you for all your wonderful videos. 👍💖👍
Loved this video. As a boatbuilder, I thoroughly enjoy the challenges of working accurately with complex shapes. Yes, making jigs for specific tasks in order to get a good fit is one of the most satisfying parts of the craft.
Perfectionists, I think many can connect with that way of thinking, I know I can.
It’s taken me a month to make one end grain butcher block out of walnut, but each time I complete a stage, the effort shows more and more.
As always, great advice. I'll probably never need a 48° jig, but still learned some great tips.
Great video with a lots of lessons. My neighbor calls me a jigman. I am always find myself spending more time building a jig than the actual project. Your video assured me that my approach may not be completely wrong after all. Thanks.
well at least he didn’t call you a Jigger
that could be offensive
I have always said, the amount of effort you put into the front end of a project will pay you back in the finished product. It is always worth the effort.
James, your tips are without fail very enlightening, and I have incorporated many into my shop. But one of the highlights for me is your eloquence in speaking so clearly. No uhs, retakes, etc, for you use the English language as it was intended. Thank you!
Not too long ago I've spent 2 or 3 days with fiddling, tinkering and testing to get a jig that allows absolutely accurate plunging a row of holes with a router into plywood that I used to make height-adjustable desks with. I tried drinking them before, but the design left no room for any slop - so I had to come up with a jig that ensures perfect quality. Was totally worth the effort, and it is reusable if I ever have to make more of these.
Those are some of the most satisfying jigs to use. Especially when you have multiple recesses to rout using a guide bushing. I needed to inset some rollers into the bottom of a coffee table legs recently, and was not sure how much the rollers should protrude from the legs in order to move the table on carpet, so it took three goes sneaking up on it. The jig made it a piece of cake giving 100% repeatable results that were spot on. Yes, I especially like jigs when used with guide bushings.
You won't need to make any more till you throw those jigs away..
sorry bro thems the rules
I'm a hack, and I'm okay with that. But I really like watching a craftsman work. It gives me ideas and helps keep my hack skill levels up high enough that my stuff still turns out good enough.
I recently made a similar jig for finishing through mortices in some 4" thick stock. I removed most of the material from each side with a Forstner bit, then used the jig to rout out the rest, first from one side, then flipped over to the other. It was well worth the 1/2 hour or so I spent making the jig from scrap.
You take pride in what you do and going the extra steps shows in your work with less frustration and more skills. Thanks for sharing with us James. Stay safe and keep having fun. Fred.
My favorite tip is the edge guide on top of the fence. I'm going to use that this weekend. Thanks again, James.
A philosophical video, but you are right. That‘s the difference between „doing something to get it done“ and „passion“ .
The difference between „average“ and „top“
Love and peace from Munich, Bavaria !
My wife got me a Japanese hand saw for my birthday. No looking back! Haven't used my old western wood saw since. Get one, they're great!
Thanks for sharing! I recently cleaned up my scrap wood pile and came across about a dozen of these jigs that I had made for different projects over the years! Glad to see I'm not alone! LoL
Take Care!
Man oh man! I am an inexperienced wood worker and going through a similar problem. It's great that you have done this video. Thanks a bunch Mr Nubs!
As someone with over 15 career years in quality management and operation excellence, we have an old saying: "Good enough is the mortal enemy of better"
Learning the correct way to "handle a saw" is a work in progress for me. Loved the jig too. Thank you for the great video! 🪚
I truly enjoyed your insight here. 66 years old and still learning! This is one of the best videos by far that I believe you made and I don't think I ever saw one that I did not care for.
At 2:25 and later, I also admire the way you stood to the side and away from the kickback path! Well Done Sir!
The creative process is one of my favorite aspects of woodworking, thinking, testing, trying, restarting, what is not to love about it!
My question is where do you gain all of that knowledge??? Thats why i stick to this channel💯, you are the answer when it comes to woodworking mr. Nubs👍
You make a good point about thinking through your actions before you do them. I don't have much time to spend in my shop, so I spend the time that I'm away from my shops planning out all my steps and trying to think of better ways to approach my tasks
I have learned so much from you over the past several years. Thanks for another very instructional video. I find that the more woodwork I do, the more likely I am to make a jig as a solution to an uncommon challenge.
Really appreciate the philosophy behind why we take our time to create a quality product.
Like you said, its the difference between someone that is a craftsman by nature and passion versus someone that is simply trying to get it done as fast, as cheap, and as simple as possible.
Woodworking, and most creative undertakings, is an exercise in problem solving - applying the resources one has: the tools, materials, skills, etc. to a task toward a specific goal. There are almost always going to be multiple ways to solve a problem; the key is finding the best one given the circumstances at hand.
Career custom residential frame and finish carpenter here and this is a great video. There is so much more here than making that cut...
Excellent video, James. Never was there a woodworker who learned all there is to know about the craft. This was enlightening. Thanks!
That's going to come in handy! I sure wish I was better at thinking outside the box like that. Thanks for sharing and for the education.
This is a really great lesson! The differentiation between crafting and hacking applies to almost any human activity. I certainly feel the same way with woodworking, as well as web-development. Thank you!
I’ve never made the jigs, just gave it my best shot without what I considered too much effort. This video cleared up that error in my thinking, thanks.
Your last words are so true. Always remember you are doing woodworking for YOU. Not for others. Even if you sell what you make.
I like your comments on the ethos of a craftsman
Hi James, a nice video that shows some good tips, but if you want to make a 48-degree cut and your chop saw only goes to 45 just slide a 3-degree wedge in between the wood and the fence, job done.
He said his miter saw lacked the capacity for the 6-inch board. I took that as my challenge was to do it without a miter saw. But that wasn't the point of the video, anyway. The point is to come up with a reliable solution.
Excellent! I made a similar jig to cut and end join a 4 by 4 post that was cemented into the ground because the post was a few inches too short for the railing. I used a pull saw just like you did and sanded the end with a hard sanding block. The joint came out perfectly flat. I glued a new piece onto the end using pre-piloted 6” long screws and washers to pull it in place. After the glue set, I backed out the screws and drilled/glued-in 1/2” oak dowels.
Wow! Mr. Nubbs, my hat's off to you sir. More & more I hear of channels becoming to "uppity" or uncaring of their viewers wants or needs. Here though; yet again I might add, you go above and beyond in the subject at hand. Many thanks to you.
That poem at that end was nice and square. Great video James! I'm working through an issue right now and this sparked some ideas and helped me to think differently about the problem. Thanks!
Excellent video James. I spend a lot of time just thinking about things. Anything that makes a job safer and more accurate is worth the time.
Woodworking is something that I do because of the process involved. The endresult is just the last step of the journey and not always the purpose.
I once heard the difference between a professional and a craftsman is, a craftsman knows how to cover their mistakes. I just built a cabinet that took way longer than it should have. Because I had to keep fixing my mistakes. “ relatively new to woodworking “. You have inspired me to think differently, you have showed me what it mean to be a true craftsman. Thank you!!
I think of a craftsman as expert at producing beautiful results and a professional as expert at producing economical results. The professional works near the knee of the cost/benefit curve and the craftsman constantly pushes onward towards perfection.
I absolutely love the fact that you love what you do, and more importantly, that you want to do it right, perfect if possible. That is something I learned from my grandfather when I worked with him in his shop as a teenager. I'm glad I had a person like that in my life to help me learn... (this might sound funny) how to work. Not just the mechanics of the job, but the pride you can take in doing something the right way. Thanks for spreading the information.
I spent an entire day making a jig to get nice straight edges on the table saw as i dont have a jointer. Went down to the workshop the next day only to discover my table saw had shat itself. So project on hold until i get a new saw. Just had a cheap shoddy contractors saw so now I’m trying to convince myself to stump up the cash for not just a modest upgrade, but a a decent upgrade. Looking at the Laguna fusion 1, so the kind of price jump that makes me glad I’m currently single. 😆
I watched this video when you released it. My immediate thoughts were “that´s cool” and “I am not anywhere near the skill level where I can do something so advanced that I will need such a jig”.
Two weeks later: “Didn’t I see a jig somewhere that can solve this issue I have? Oh,yes: Stumpy Nubs!”.
So: Thank you very much for your guidance - again! Most appreciated, James! 🙏🏼🍾
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This is a brilliant solution. Taking the time to construct well made jigs does take time but improves accuracy and sefety. I really take my time thinking of solutions before I just go and do something half-assed and unsafe. Thanks for the videos
Great video 👍 Love where you said a craftsperson will take the time to make a jig to do the task right ❤️
Great video, simple but yet informative. Sometimes the simple solution is the hardest thing to see. 👍🏼
Great video, as usual!
That large T-square at the end!
I - MUST - HAVE!
My solution for cutting acute angles on board ends is to use a circular saw. I made a jig to go on the end of the bench that supports and guides the shoe of my circular saw right against the end of the board, with the bevel on the saw set to the complement of the cut angle I need (so say 30° to make a 60° end bevel).
Being creative in problem solving makes one feel good when a project is done. Good video
Thoughtful definition of the true craftsman. It is good to pull back like this occasionally.
Listening to this video is like a relaxing meditation exercise. Great idea and mental health at the same time!
I made a few acoustic guitars and the number of tools and jigs needed is amazing. For example I built a simple long compass so I could build a router sled with a 5 degree bowl. I used that to make a mdf radius bowel which is placed at the bottom of the Go Bar Deck I built. After that I was able to glue the internal bracing to the guitar back.
Great idea. Also if the jig is kept it might be used again or modified to a different angle. Love the suggestions you give us viewers.
Such an amazing way to solve the problem - this is what makes woodworking so enjoyable to me -the creative solutions.
Great commercial at the end! You’re the Dr. Seuss of woodworking tool sales 😉.
Yes, yes, yes. Think. Use what you have in your shop. And in your mind. This was an excellent video.
Thx Sensei James ! 1 year ago I had to push myself so hard to start making more jigs and better finished work. I was more of a hacker before... I can't stress enough how much it changed my efficiency ! Cuz hacks dont lawaus work and you end up spending way more time repairing and the end
I like to think of the last thing first. And then work the situation out backwards. Helps me come up with good ideas. Thanks for the video
3D printers are great for low use jigs & fixtures.
And my old radial arm saw is perfect for the problem in this video.
One lesson that I had to learn early in woodworking and metal fabrication is there is ALWAYS another solution to the problem, whether a jig, a different technique or tool, or my favorite, redesigning the project to eliminate a particular challenge.
For me also, James, part of the joy of woodworking as a hobby is problem solving. I am always seeking a way to "do it better", or more accurately. However, in my experience, the objective of most working professionals is to get the job done ASAP, because time is money. But I have met many pros who also approach their craft in the way you have described. They seem to get more satisfaction from their daily work. And their continual effort to find a better way usually shows up in the quality of their product. Many thanks.
Just stumbled on to this channel. I like your Montra about doing the job right and being a craftsman and not a hack. It’s so disgusting to see new home builds that are all a hack job. Nice job on the jig👍🏼
I made this concept last year with my wood CNC to help with making compound miter cuts in a 2x6 steel tube with plasma torch.
Custom projects require a custom approach and thought process. Well said when you stated the average person can get the job done but a true custom tradesmen takes the time to insure that even the smallest things are done to perfection.
Agree, plan ahead. I have found the projects I ponder over, ultimately come out better.
Liked the idea... could add a couple or more magnets on the angled jig so the saw will keep at the desired angle... making it easier to cut
years ago I had to cut angles beyond 45 degrees on 25 foot long glu lam beams. we made large 30 degree wedge "shoes" that went under the (guided) circular hand saw. then set the required saw bevel. the old timers were amazed when it worked every time. beautiful results.
Thanks for another great video. I am a beginner, and the most important takeaway for me is to take my time. Something I keep telling myself every time I start to try to go too fast.
To make a 48 deg cut on the ends of a 2x6 with a miter saw, could you put a 3 deg wedge under one end of the board so that it raises that end up by 3 deg instead of laying flat, effectively making a 45 deg tilt into 48? If a 3 deg wedge is too thin to practically make, you could use an 18 deg wedge to make a 30 deg tilt into 48.
That's what I was thinking, but you wouldn't have to make a wedge. Do some simple trigonometry and tack/tape to the stock a scrap piece such that the height of the scrap and its distance from the cut form a 48⁰ angle: tan(3⁰) ≈ .0524. If you wanted to use a 1" tall piece of scrap, it would be placed 1/.0524 = about 19 3/32 inches away from the bottom of the cut.
Except the problem was the guy couldn't use his miter saw because the board was too lomg.
I have a 12" sliding compound miter saw and the table swings too 51° so I'd just cut it on edge. If I didn't have that I'd use my worm drive circular saw because that table also goes to 51°. If I didn't have that I'd use my radial arm saw, but if I didn't have that I'd use a hand saw.
@@michaelallenyarbrough9503 Yes excellent point, then you wouldn't need to be as precise with cutting a wedge.
@@darrenbyrne5465 I don't think that would work. I believe you'd have to turn the board 90 deg to make a 42 deg tilt into a 48 deg cut, which is what was being attempted at the table saw.
It's funny you mention cutting an angle on the end of a long board vertical on the table saw because I did that recently. I had to cut a 78 deg. angle on the end of a 7 ft. cedar 1x8. I did spend the time to make a tall (12") auxiliary fence and a sled with holddown clamps that ran on that fence to hold the workpiece. Worked great.
Thanks for your comments and the lesson on this kind of Jig. I agree with your philosophy of doing a good job instead of "good enough Job". It has always been my philosophy to do the best job you can when the job might not require that much precision. Each attempt is an opportunity to hon your skills, so when the job does require precision, you will have the skills. I work in a Vocational School. Even though I am math support as opposed to a Shop teacher, I try to pass that philosophy onto my students.
I've done a similar guided cut with a western saw because it was what I had available at the time (not in my shop); I held it on top like a pinch grip on a kitchen knife. Worked quite well.
The ability to think through a problem and come up with a solution will make you special. A crew of carpenters on a million dollar house build were stumped. one of them asked me if I could help solve this problem. The room had a raised ceiling that had to slope down to the curved window wall. The framing supporting the floor above had no geometrical relationship to the conical shape needed. I spent the morning taking dimensions and working out a solution. It seems simple now. I got paid for the day but the real reward was satisfaction.
If all you have is a standard wood saw, you could add a handle to your liking, to the opposite end of the typical wooden handle, and than you have a pull saw. Creative thinking can make most anything you need... Thumbs Up!
Thanks for the insight and thumbs up for safety! I truly enjoy your videos, James. :)